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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Susan Sontag

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

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